I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

By such innovations are languages enriched, when the words are adopted by the multitude, and naturalized by custom.

Heaven's help is better than early rising.

True courage lies in the middle, between cowardice and recklessness.

Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side.